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Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

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Re: Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

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What happens when you pit Markov chain fake news against Markov chain Donald Trump? https://filiph.github.io/markov/

This seems to perform better than the OP's link. Does anybody know why that is? Are there certain forms of data for which Markov chains perform better?

I think the reason is twofold:

1. Highlighted in the conclusion of the Trump Tweet article above, the idiosyncratic voice employed by 45 makes the generated tweets very familiar to his tweeting patterns

2. The Trump Tweet chains are better optimized when it comes to probability and state management. The article goes into some detail about this in the Implementation Details section.

Re: Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

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What happens when you pit Markov chain fake news against Markov chain Donald Trump? https://filiph.github.io/markov/

This seems to perform better than the OP's link. Does anybody know why that is? Are there certain forms of data for which Markov chains perform better?

As the sibling comment talks about, I think DJT's tweeting pattern helps. He often uses short sentences, so with Markov order 2 (every three words generated is a quote, more or less), there number of seams per sentence is lower. (By seams, I mean places where the generated text seems disjointed because the Markov chain consists of two non-semantic or semantically ambiguous tokens.)

Re: Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

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Similar to this on reddit is the Subreddit Simulator[0].

The subreddit is populated entirely by bots that make posts based on Markov chains, each one trained from the posts on a specific other subreddit. The bots even post comments based on the comments from their assigned subreddit. Some of the results are hilarious.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator

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